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He photographed Paris again in the early 1860s, the last of his active work. Louis-Rmy Robert (18101882) Mission Hliographique, 1851. Highly respected by the end of the decade, he received the Cross of the Legion of Honor in 1860. douard Baldus (18131889) The Industrialization of French Photography after 1860. He changed from the calotype to the collodion process in 1854 and made for the government a complete documentation of the new wing of the Louvre in over 2000 detail photographs. 2 Baldus later was hired to photograph the construction projects at the Louvre (18541869), to document flooding on the Rhne River (1856), and to photograph structures engineered along various railway lines (1855, 1859).

In late 1850s he documented the flooding of the Rhône. The Photographs of Edouard Baldus (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994), 9. The photographs originally served as a means. From 1854 into the mid-1860s, Baldus made over a thousand photographs. He invented an elegant but not commercially useful photogravure process by 1854. In 1855, Edouard Baldus, a central figure in early French photography, was contracted by the administration of Napolon III to photograph the statues, ornamental elements and faades of the Louvre and Tuileries palaces in Paris. He photographed Paris in 1852 and in 1855 he reproduced several albums of views of railroads for the Baron James de Rothschild. Baldus photographed in the provinces of Burgandy, the Dauphiné, and Provence. The Commission des Monuments Historiques chose Baldus and four others to form the Mission Héliographique in 1851 to document the architectural heritage of France region by region. He was a founding member of the Société Héliographique in 1851 and the Société française de Photographie in 1857. As a co-founder of the Socit Hliographique (1851), the first French photographic association, Baldus participated in the advancement of photography. Baldus was trained as a painter and learned photography by 1849. Lent by The Troob Family Foundation After modest success as an academic painter in Paris, Prussian-born douard Baldus turned to photography around 1848.